Patients with varioliform lymphocytic gastritis often suffer weight loss and anorexia, may have protein losing enteropathy

Endoscopy: normal (low grade) or nodules, erosions and large folds (more severe disease, also known as varioliform gastritis); most severe form may resemble Menetrier's disease, although a relationship has been postulated in some cases (Pathol Res Pract 2000;196:125)

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